Emily Schroeder Willis: Double Ground
@ Oliva Gallery
3816 W Armitage, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Friday, October 11th, from 5PM - 9PM
On view through Saturday, November 9th
Emily Schroeder Willis received her MFA from the University of Colorado, Boulder in 2006. She was awarded the Jerome Fellowship from the Northern Clay Center and the Sage Scholarship from the Archie Bray Foundation. She has been an artist-in-residence/visiting artist at the Archie Bray Foundation in Montana, the Zentrum für Keramik in Berlin, Germany, the Alberta College of Art and Design in Canada and Watershed Center for the Ceramics Arts in Maine. In 2012, she was a presenter at Arrowmont’s Utilitarian Clay Conference where Objective Clay, a ceramics collective she is currently part of, was formed. Currently, she lives in Chicago where she is an Associate Professor, Adjunct at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
Eleana Daniel is an oil painter from the American South and is currently based in Chicago, IL. She holds a BFA in Visual Communications from Columbia College Chicago and an MFA in Painting and Drawing at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. After an almost decade-long career in advertising as an art director, she returned to painting in 2019, and has since shown work at Split-Rail, Co-Prosperity Sphere, and Zhou B Center for the Arts. She uses nature as a setting to ground her work as she reprocesses memories through the use of an esoteric symbolism. Eleana is also the curator of Mozart House, a series of DIY group art shows, and a volunteer graphic designer for Comfort Station.
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